Having problem with posts

+Intellivision Master · February 17

On 2/16, when I would go to save a post, it took a while. Usually the post saves within a few seconds. But there were times where it took a whole minute. I'm not sure why there is a delay? Also, some of my posts were not showing up in my profile yesterday. They would appear later on though. Then today 2/17, I go into my profile and under activity, I have no posts at all. In order to see my posts, I must click on see my activity, then on the left hand side click on posts. So, my question is, what is going on?

Albert · February 17

The forum uses Elasticsearch for all search-related tasks. This includes doing regular searches, but also things like All Activity and displaying content you've posted in your profile. Looks like it was struggling yesterday, resulting in a long delay when submitting a post, so I told the forum to rebuild the search indices. Unfortunately, Elasticsearch crashed overnight, which results in any such search results returning nothing.

I just cleared all the data in Elasticsearch and the forum is rebuilding the search indices again. If it continues to have problems, I will dig into it further. Elasticsearch is a bit of a resource hog (server RAM, disk space and CPU resources), and it has caused issues in the past. Although until yesterday, it had been churning along nicely for some time.

..Al